Soft remnant interactions and rapidity gaps

Abstract

Soft colour exchange models give a unified description of both diffractive and non-diffractive events, such that e-p and p-pbar collider data with and without rapidity gaps are well reproduced. We show that these models also describe the new Tevatron data on diffraction based on observed leading antiprotons, which provide new information on how to treat the beam particle remnant in the Monte Carlo model.